Editorial: America has a security crisis, but it's not on the border
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Jan 11, 2019
3 minutes
For all his talk about a supposed national security crisis on the border with Mexico, President Donald Trump is ignoring the potential crisis the federal shutdown is creating elsewhere in the country.
Trump has essentially taken nine federal departments and dozens of federal agencies hostage in an effort to coerce Congress into spending $5.7 billion on the bigger, longer border wall he promised on the campaign trail to build (supposedly at Mexico's expense, but now
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